Example sentences of "may be [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ expense incurred in or in connection with ’ the provision of in-house benefits may be either the marginal cost caused by the provision of the benefit in question or a proportion of the total cost incurred in providing the service both for the public and for the employee ( ‘ the average cost ’ ) . |
| 2 | Capital may be either the initial capital outlay including working capital or the average capital employed over the life of the project . |
| 3 | If they work also as weekly credit callers giving cash loans to the same customers who buy goods from them , their rates for money loans may be just the same as their rates for credit on goods . |
| 4 | This may be why the earlier antiquaries thought of them as country houses . |
| 5 | It thus seems likely that the junctions which are recalled may be simply the large congested ones , ones which also happen to be risky . |
| 6 | But that surrender and the loss of employment may be exactly the necessary stimuli to break through the denial system and convince the sufferer to seek effective help . |
| 7 | It may be only the occasional small amount for a short time , or it may be a larger sum over a lengthy period . |
| 8 | ‘ Because he is English , and noble , though he may be only the small cousinly fry of his house . |
| 9 | Such behaviour may be specifically intended as communication or it may be only the natural expression of the individual 's mental content of the moment . |
| 10 | On the other hand her present emphasis may be retrospectively the harder because she was so emphatic in the Sixties when Burton ‘ crucified Sybil ’ by leaving her for Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 11 | A number of local people took pictures of the line , and we think that we have acquired most of these , but there may be still the one or two odd ones about that we do not know of . |
| 12 | This is because it is quite possible that the laws in both cases may be much the same . |